The present invention to provide a disposable wearing article improved so that, with the wearing article put on the wearer's body, a liquid-absorbent structure is spaced from the wearer's skin to protect the wearer's skin from being soiled with body waste and the body waste having flowed into the front and rear waist regions may be prevented from leaking out beyond these waist regions by providing the front and rear waist regions with body waste retaining spaces. A crotch member 12 defining parts of front and rear waist regions 13, 14 and a crotch region 15 has a front end 35 lying in the front waist region 13 and a rear end 36 lying in the rear waist region 14 wherein at least one of the front and rear ends 35, 36 defines non-bonded regions 66, 70 in an intermediate zone as viewed in the transverse direction X of the crotch member 12 and is attached to the outer surface of an elastic waist panel 11 by the intermediary of square U-shaped bonded regions 62, 63 opening toward the crotch region 15.In areas defining the non-bonded regions 66, 70, body waste retaining space (s) 73, 74 are formed between the elastic waist panel 11 and the crotch member 12.
